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Sunday, May 3, 2009

Sunday, May 3, 2009

As you fellow Trekkers are no doubt aware, the new movie premiers this Friday. To help get y'all sufficiently pumped, I've got an appropriately out-of-this-world line up today.

First, and probably the most impressive of them all, is this bit of awesomeness by Edward and Antoni Frys of European Cake Gallery:

The Frys brothers are also responsible for that killer Jason Voorhees number and the very first Sunday Sweet I ever featured: Wall-E!

Ed sent this in last week, explaining that as a Trekkie it's something he's always wanted to do. (I'm pretty sure he was referring to the construction of the cake, though, not his attempt to eat his way through the saucer section.) The support structure took him and his brother 3 days to weld, and lest any of you should question his Trekkie status, he also tells me the ship design is the NCC-1701 "refit" used in the first three movies. Ok, Edward, I think we believe you. ;)

Ed also sent along some progress shots, so you can see all the work that went into this masterpiece. First, the body set in a specially carved foam support base:

And the nacelles, made from a mixture of Rice Krispy treats and white chocolate:

And lastly, a nice shot that really shows off the detail work on the saucer:

And while we're geeking out here - you guys don't mind, do you? Yes? Well, tough cookies - I have to share with you the fantastically geeky wedding cake topper from Trekkie/Wreckie* Storm:

Yes, that's a Vulcan groom and a Klingon bride.

Think that's a bit odd? Then clearly you don't know any Trekkers OR Trekkies. Oh, and you haven't seen the group wedding portrait:

It's such a shame that the Star Trek Experience in Vegas is gone; this is the kind of stuff that makes me grin my fool head off. Love it.

Here's another Sweet Trek wedding cake:

(Found here by Anna M., although the baker isn't listed. If you know who made it, be sure to tell me.)

Holy schnikeyAs a Trekkie,my heart is surging with warm fuzzy feelings.I love the to boldly go cake,its so ...simple but inspiring.and the enterprise cake is fabulous as wellThis blog is such a great start to the morning

Clearly the baker of the "To boldly go..." cake was not a Star Trek afficionado, or didn't much care for the groom, because the guys in the red shirts were always the first to get killed off, typically in horribly painful ways. : O

You know, I am probably going incur a lot of Wrath Of Cakers here, but I don't see the big deal with Duff. Overall, his cakes don't have the details and pizazz that a lot of other folks do. For example, his cake was by far the most amaturerish (is that a word) of the group. Look at the first cake, wonderful. The wedding cakes, Wow. Duff now has a name so everyone thinks they must have the "A Lister". Just my opinion.

Okay, to the people saying that the groom's cake is bad because the red shirts are always the first to snuff it...that was in the original series. This shirt is OBVIOUSLY from the Next Generation. See the communicator badge and black accents? In this series the red shirts mean officers. ;)

I TOTALLY agree. I thought the ensemble with the Tribble cupcakes and all was way superior to Duff's "Enterprise Bridge". Especially considering how little of Duff's cake was edible in the form of cake. Fondant is cool, but WE WANT CAKE not little poseable figurines....

Is that even legal? Aren't they different species? Is this what the right wing is up in arms over? Gay marriage starts to become legal and next thing you know we have Vulcans and Klingons marrying? Does Miss California know about this?

Oh man. My son turned nine last week and requested a Star Trek cake (he also got a Dr. McCoy-style blue t shirt, and a phaser, we are raising the next generation of geeks). These cakes blow mine out of the water.

All I did was frost a round cake white, and write on the top "U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701", just like on the saucer section. I made a little thing in the middle out of fondant for the blue light on the saucer section. Around the sides of the cakes were Star Fleet badges in red, blue and yellow, cut out of fondant. It was great for a 9 year old's cake...but these are beautiful! I wish I'd known somebody who could have done a Trek wedding cake when I got married 10 years ago. We had the Next Gen theme song playing as we entered the reception hall, but a Trek cake would have been gorgeous!

Hey Jen... i hate for my first comment to be a correction, but that cake that Duff made wasn't for the movie. That was a groom's cake made a few years ago (it was even on the show as they were making it), and the amateur nature of it can be somewhat chalked up to the fact that it was one of his designer's first cakes. (and there's a few pieces missing from that picture. doh!)

Yay Star Trek cakes! (that being said, i'm not seeing the new movie. i'm so tired of hearing about it i just don't care anymore!)

In Duff and his crews' defense, Llama, people DO go to Duff for fondant figures over gorgeous wedding style cakes. I think it's hard to compare their cake to the others in terms of elegance - they gave the customer exactly what they wanted. (Ironically, the controversy of this cake stems from this too, IIRC, the customer asked for Scotty in the navigators seat and the other members of the bakery commented on how it would never happen)

These are fantastic! And no, the groom with the "boldly go" cake isn't doomed - that's a NextGen tunic, and red meant command, not cannon fodder. Otherwise Picard and Riker wouldn't have survived the pilot! Hee!

Word verification: wings. Really! I suppose "nacelles" would have been too much to hope for...

Oh my gosh...I LOVE LOVE LOVE those cakes!!! Can't wait to show my die-hard trekkie hubby who has transformed me into a trekkie...great way to get us pumped up (more than we already are!!!) for the new movie this week!!

Can't believe the STE in LV is gone?!? Hubby went there as a kid...don't know if he knows its gone.

TRIBBLE CUPCAKES! WOWOWOWOW! Funny idea, and easy to make to boot? NICE!

I love the very plain and simple insignia cake with the golden fondant. It is so pretty and has a "classy" feel to it...nice.

I can't imagine baking the Enterprise cake though...just trying to get that thing stable on the table and presentable stand-wise alone must have been quite the nightmare. Though seeing him plow into the saucer like that makes me secretly wish to get to do the same.

i am 14 and i have a Trekkie mother i think i will get them a Star Trek cake for my parents next anniversary. oh and by the way the best stories were the first Trek's and the best actors were the Next Generation guys.

I'm a longtime Trek costumer (especially Klingons!), and my husband has loved Trek since he watched it first-run on his Mama's knee. We both loved The Experience; the wedding co-ordinator and General Manager went all-out for us.

Guests were instructed to "come as someone/thing Sci-Fi--doesn't *have* to be Trek", so yes, my weird friend came as Barf! And the straight-looking couple on the left are my cop brother-in-law and his schoolteacher wife; yeah, they weren't feelin' the theme!

I particularly adore the fact that the uniform groom's cake is a RED SHIRT! ROTFLMAO! Dude, that's a scary way to think about getting married.

And having just seen Wrath of Khan on a big screen (our local googleplex did a 'good parts' Star Trek Original Crew film fest in anticipation of the new movie), I can say that, yes, that first cake matches the Enterprise in WoK pretty amazingly.

Wow, do they have Tom Paris/B'lanna Torres cake toppers too? Seven of Nine and Chakotay (they were a couple right)? I just it was be hilarious and fun if they had a whole series based on all the most famous pairings in Star Trek.

Folks, the red groom's cake is no big deal because the color coding changed between TOS and TNG. It's clearly a TNG style red command uniform tunic, and the expendable security schlubs were goldshirts.

Love, love, LOVE these cakes!!! And I'm sorry to have to agree with those who have already pointed out that the red shirt cake is fine because it's from TNG, not TOS. My friends and I had SUCH a great time last summer at STE in Vegas....we even have pictures of their Borg 3 of 6 assimilating us on the bridge (of course we were in costume also!).

I plan to drive out to Vegas this summer and will probably stop by the new location to see how it compares. They were supposed to open it on Friday, but they have to postpone it so that it doesn't detract from the movie. It's supposed to now open later in May or early this summer. (Yeah, I might be following Trek stories quite closely, lol -- bought a TOS costume to wear when my friends and I go see the new movie on Friday, woot!!)

Since the red groom's cake one is clearly a NextGen officer's shirt (Picard? Riker?) it's worth reminding any Trekkers out there of the episode where Data installed a dreaming module. He dreamed of Deanna Troi as a cake, being served up in Ten-Forward.

With peptide frosting!

Egh....I'm not sure I could eat the cake, being reminded of that episode....

Most of what I would say has already been said. Except...@Oats: if you are gonna make fun of geeks, get your facts straight. Lithium? Naw. Di-lithium. Not naturally occurring around her, but in other parts of the galaxy, makes nice crystals for powering ships!! In the FICTIONAL ST series. Yes, we realize it is MADE UP, but we love it anyway. Hmph.

AAAAAAAAAAH MAJOR Geeking out happening in my brain right now...That definitely stoked me up for friday!! WOOHOO! After seeing that wedding photo it makes me seriously wish I had more than just a combadge to wear to the premiere though! I think my favorite of all those cakes is the simple round with the voyager combadge on top...very classy. :)

Is that Boba Fett in the wedding photo? I'm pretty sure he was never on Star Trek. Nor, as a Trekkie, do I believe a Klingon would ever marry a Vulcan, ew! I'd like to see a cake of Jean-Luc's head. Now that would be wreck-tastic!

I would like to point out that in the first season of TNG there were several red shirts that got killed off quickly. The first season was weird like that anyway- remember the guys in miniskirt uniforms that year? I don't hide from my geekdom.

LOL! As a passing fan of ST (wouldn't consider myself a 'Trekkie' but a fan nonetheless), I think these are incredibly inventive. I got a big laugh out of the wedding photo with its motley crew of sci-fi lovers (Barf probably didn't need a date, seeing as how he's his own best friend ;) ).

Duff's cake was cute, but nothing tops the Tribble cupcakes. Those are definitely for the win. Heheh, bet THOSE didn't multiply--people probably ate them too quickly! ;)

My husband wanted me to comment that the NCC-1701A didn't show up until after the 4th star trek movie...the blew up NCC-1701 at the end of part three.My husband is not only a movie geek,but also a Star Trek geek (as we lay in bed watching Star Trek 6 right now).. ;)

Storm the Klingon Bride again! Qapla', Bob Borst! I KNEW my brother reminded me of someone in his Wrath of Khan-era uniform, but I could never put my finger on *who*; I don't think he was *trying* to look like Dmitri Valtane, but I'm sure he'll be tickled to hear that he did. He had the uniform specially made, to wear when he gave me away at the wedding.

I think some readers are having a hard time wrapping their minds around the idea that this truly was my Dream Wedding! I love Trek, I love making and wearing Trek costumes, and I love a Trek lover; there was no other option! :)

Hey that red grooms cake is mine. I would joke around to my wife that I waned a star trek grooms cake, and sure enough she got me one. I think a friend did for around $50-$75. It was chocolate with raspberry filling.

I to put any concerns to rest we are still married and are attending tonight's viewing of star trek.

My best friend's brother is a major Trekkie (Trekker? I don't know the difference, please feel free to advise) - he once went to a convention dressed as his favorite character, and got into a FIST FIGHT with someone dressed as his character's enemy. He and his wife had a Star Trek themed wedding (of course) and the bride scent out note specifying that if you needed "help" choosing an outfit she'd be glad to help you find a character that most suited your personality. She really wanted EVERYONE to be in costume "for the pictures".

Ahem. I was uh, "unable to attend" the wedding. I think they would have KILLED someone they liked a LOT if they could have a cake like one of these. It was THAT serious.

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